Kaul's appointment is in line with Ola's strategy to expand its organisational bandwidth by hiring industry veterans who held senior positions in large corporations. It hired Infosys CFO Rajiv Bansal as finance chief in late 2015 and Microsoft India sales head Raghuvesh Sarup as chief marketing officer and head of categories.

The company is believed to be looking for a general counsel and a head of new initiatives to replace Sandeep Sahni, who quit recently.